Greece's mess was not so easy to resolve. According to Ferdinand's plan, one million Greeks would be relocated to Syria within the next five years. Once World War I broke out, they would simply toss the Greek government into Syria and let the Greeks fight the Ottomans to the death!
In any case, once the world war erupted, the Entente's debts could be repudiated. For the next few years, they should let the Greeks work hard at repaying their British, French, and Russian loans first!
Oh, mainly the British and French ones. Russia's financial sector had never been particularly developed, the Greek government did not owe them much money, and there was no urgency in repayment. Their debts could be disowned later as well!
Yet the Greek loans owed to the United Kingdom and France alone added up to more than thirty-five million pounds. Add the more than four million pounds owed to Russia, not even counting the debt owed to Bulgaria, and their foreign debt was already nearing forty million pounds!
Even Ferdinand could not help cursing the Greeks for being idiots. Why borrow so much from the United Kingdom and France? Weren't they a pro-German government? Why had they not borrowed more German money?
If they had borrowed everything from the Germans, would he need to worry so much now? They would only have needed to pay interest for a few years, then once the world war broke out, they could simply repudiate the debt. How wonderful would that have been?
If George I had known what Ferdinand was thinking, he would surely have cried bloody injustice! Everyone knew Germany was a latecomer, having risen to prominence only recently!
Although its total economy had already surpassed that of the United Kingdom itself, compared with the old great powers,